Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, 2013, at Headley Funeral Chapel, Augusta. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 12, at the Augusta First Baptist Church.

Ilah was born on Feb. 22, 1937, on the family farm in Hope, North Dakota, the first of 10 children. While in first grade her parents moved the family to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she graduated from school in 1954. Ilah met her future husband, Burlin Vorhies, while attending Iowa State Teacher’s College. They married on June 12, 1955, in Cedar Falls. They had 5 children.

Ilah graduated from Draughn’s Business College in accounting. She was an accounting clerk for Augusta USD 402 and Circle USD 375, and a bookkeeper at Countryside Christian Church in Wichita, retiring early to assist her aging mother-in-law.

Ilah always served others. She traveled to Haiti to build a school and church. She was forwarding agent for missionaries in Puerto Rico. After the Augusta flood of 1998, Ilah cooked meals at the First Baptist Church to feed victims of the flood and other volunteers. Ilah and Burlin led worship services and singing at local nursing homes. Ilah loved working with children. She was a president of the Garfield PTA and the Kansas State PTA. She volunteered as a Girl Scout Leader, a Cub Scout Den Mother, a Sunday school teacher, Youth Group leader, and a girl’s softball coach. She assisted as a teacher’s aide at USD259 where her oldest daughter was a teacher. Ilah enjoyed driving school buses for both Augusta and Bluestem Schools. She also worked as an ambulance attendant.